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One purpose of the "only outlaws will have guns" mantra was to make us feel less safe b/c there'd be fewer "good guys with guns" to save the day. I think that's proven to be a worthless defense tactic. I just wish republicans hated guns as much as they hated minorities and LGBTQ and Drag Queens.

Has any research or studies been done with regard to the effects on banning of the shifts?

Newsmax won't exist when Dominion is done with them.

I agree. What bothers me in the debate is too many people have the attitude that if you can't have a 100% success rate then you shouldn't even bother doing anything. No reasonable solution will be perfect. But maybe instead of 10 mass shootings you have 7 because of some difficulty in obtaining the gun either through a delay or a check. They always say "Well they will get it somehow". Sure, maybe. But why make it as easy as possible? Maybe that person can't get it. Maybe they try to get it and there's an altercation and we expose a ring? Maybe he tries from an undercover officer? Other than some rifle shooting on family property or when my son was in scouts, I shot a gun once, in 2019. I was visiting family that I mentioned before who live near the latest incident. They are into guns and I wanted to go to a range. I get the appeal for people who do that. I viewed it like going to a driving range for golf. Some people don't golf 18 holes but they like to go to a range for an hour. There was a lot to process on the range in handling of the gun and loading the clip. My brother in law was patient with me. The reason I say that.... there's no way someone like me should be able to just go into a store and get a gun. I can. There should be training requirements and not from some schmo with a sign on a post somewhere offering classes at a local VFW hall for $50. It should be like a driver's license.

I was not into that music at the time but I also appreciate when someone I know has good taste making suggestions. It takes a lot of effort to listen to new music for me.

At home I have listened to the radio for music once in about 10 years. That was when I was working outside and my phone had died and I wanted to listen to music. I dug out my old "boom box" from the garage, cleaned all the dirt and dust off, plugged it in, listed to WRIF... and it was the same **** I heard on there from 2005. So pedestrian. "Oh listen... Enter Sandman.... cool...." I'll have to figure out how to listen to this show. Hope it's streaming because I have no radio in the house.

Gun confiscation will never work and would not be a popular solution. The closest would be a ban on manufacturing, sales, and buy backs.

Yes. And his stuff was generally mild. I try to give some people the benefit of the doubt on here in terms of their situation. He could have been 75 years old and a widow and this gave him an outlet. We had an uncle that lived in CA. I only met him a few times. It was my wife's uncle, her dad's oldest sister's husband. He never came around much and since they lived out there that was even less opportunity to do so. But still, when she would come back he never would. He did come to a reunion and we bonded immediately. He reminded me of my dad. We went out there one year and we spent a lot of time together. His daughter's teased me, calling me their brother. He was a retired truck driver who moved out there in 1955 and would point out "this is the working man's neighborhood". (Average house price now is close to $1M) and he volunteered at an exotic animal rescue and was learning to use "the computer" He spammed me nearly every day to an old email account I used. When he passed away a few days later I went into that account and saw all of them, including one about a week before he died wishing me a happy birthday. That hurt a little. It was just a dormant account I only used for ticket sales. But he was on facebook so we kept in touch that way.

And he’s such a perfectionist they did 6 takes.

weird that the Trump DOJ and GOP Congress didn't do anything

FWIW, my black friends and colleagues say Black. My problem with African American is not every black person is American.

He's probably only half listening and thinking about what he's going to say next.

Interesting.... I wonder if that's something Carplay has to handle or the MLB app? The reason I ask is sometimes the interface is different between the app on my phone and what's on the screen.

Wasn't there a school of thought that performance against pythag is a function of your bullpen?

Yes. I heard someone on Fox say something to that effect. 7 must be the magic number of acceptable damage in order to protect our idol the 2A.

Yeah I don’t see it happening unless it’s word you use regularly.

My sister in law and her husband live a few miles from there. They are ok and nobody they knew was there for all they know.

A little surprised Oakland isn’t Jewish. I bet it’s close.

What I don’t like about his calls is they sound targeted towards the other team.

Yeah. I meant Mississippi. Not Minnesota. A lot of people down there have friends of family working in those plants without a union for good money relative to the cost of living and they see people going on strike up north….

Really not a fan of Shep’s calls to close the game. They sound too Hawk Harrelson-ish. Which can work if you are an old man and it’s charming.

Nissan has plants in TN and MN and Honda in Alabama. And speaking anecdotally from talking with my family down there… there’s a bit of resentment to the UAW down in that region. They see them as lazy and entitled and don’t like that they retire down there. Just what I have heard.

Wow.... I heard that phrase on talk radio some time in the 90's I believe.

nice upstanding Christian she is